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The album has been described as an indie pop record with "shoegazer textures". [7] [8] Almost Cool said the band created an album of "lo-fi, hazy summer dream pop". [9]The opening track, "Saltwater", is a lazy, drifting song built on scratchy, low-key synthetic beats that got "flooded with softly spreading guitar distortion and incandescent organ". [8] "
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (Amharic: አቤል መኮንን ተስፋዬ; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Recognized for his unconventional musical production, artistic reinventions, and falsetto register, Tesfaye is regarded as highly innovative and influential.
The Weeknd released three mixtapes in 2011: House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence, the first of which was certified silver in the UK. [3] He signed with Republic Records in 2012, and released Trilogy , a compilation album of the three mixtapes he had released the previous year plus three new bonus tracks.
On Sept. 3, 2022, on what was intended to be the final date of his exhausting “After Hours Til Dawn” North American tour, the Weeknd confidently took the stage of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood ...
2025 is going to be The Weeknd's year.. The Dawn FM performer (whose real name is Abel Tesfaye) took the stage at Spotify's Billions Club Live in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 17, to perform a jam ...
The Weeknd's debut studio album Kiss Land was released in September 2013. It was supported by six singles, including the lead single of the same name and " Belong to the World ". [ 9 ] Primarily a R&B and dark wave album, the Weeknd worked with new collaborators for Kiss Land such as DaHeala , DannyBoyStyles and Belly .
In short order the Weeknd — who is still deep in work on his HBO series “The Idol,” which he cowrote, coproduced and stars in — agreed to bump up his previously planned b ... Swedish House ...
[43] Tom Ewing of The Guardian felt that while the Weeknd's vocals and lyrics on House of Balloons "aren't especially strong by R&B standards," much of the album's attention was attracted by its strong command of mood. [44] In December 2011, Metacritic determined that House of Balloons was the third best-reviewed project of the year. [45]